Dispute: Claim of Employes:

senior bidder Electrician A. Maves from his bid-in and delayed

awarded position as Electrician (Maintenance) and placed him

back on his former position, which he no longer owned, as

Electrician (Power Operator Relief #13A).

2. That, accordingly, the Long Island Rail Road Company be

ordered to award senior bidder A. Maves Croup y#9 position on

Bulletin X04-72 effective 9:00 a.m., February 21, 1972, and

to compensate him $1,604-75 due from March 10, 1972 to and

including May 2, 1972. This claim continued until Wednesday,

July 26, 1972, -the date A. Maves displaced Electrician

A. MacNeil when Power Operator Relief #13 was abolished by

Bulletin #20-72 due to automating Wantagh Sub-Station. The

additional monies due A. Maves for this period is $2,515.60

for a total due on this claim of $4,120.35, adjusted to

include subsequent wage increase. .

Findings:

The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employe or employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.

Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

Examination of this record shows that except for a different Claimant, the parties, facts, pertinent Agreement provisions and positions of the parties are identical with those presented in our recent Award 6885. For reasons developed fully therein the instant claim is similarly sustained.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division